noun:

• mysteries of one's master's art
• robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); "transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)" [figurative] - original meaning - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to drive mad; to upset; to disturb; to confuse
• to cause a malfunction; to throw out of kilter; to put out of order; to derail; to detune (e.g. instrument)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

noun / ~する noun:

• hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gain a reliable foundation and be in a safe condition; to board a large ship [literal]

expression:

• something very unexpected; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes from a gourd [literal]

noun:

• lower reaches (of a river) Antonym: 上【かみ】
• bottom; lower part
• lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses
• end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan)

~の noun:

• dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
• to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
• to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる

expression:

• it's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb:

• a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly - onomatopoeia

expression:

• any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune [literal] - proverb

noun:

• low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
• Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds) ➜ 山の手

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to have a talented child despite being untalented oneself; a kite gives birth to a hawk [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a hit; to have a great success (e.g. in business, with a play, etc.)

noun:

• briefing a patient about a disease; treating a patient by talking to them - From German "Mundtherapie"

expression:

• having no choice but to carry on; having no choice but to go on; unable to change one's course of action; a man riding a tiger cannot disembark halfway through

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet

expression:

• that's not a nice thing to say; that's not a nice way of putting it; there was no need to say that

expression:

• that's not a nice thing to say; that's not a nice way of putting it; there was no need to say that ➜ 言うに事欠いて【いうにことかいて】

noun:

• dirt mound
• dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

noun:

• free use

~する noun:

• to use freely; to make free use of; to have good command (e.g. of a language)
• to drive someone on

suffix:

• style; manner
• after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】